top 50% hacker news stories for 2011-10-14

Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27260/

15 years ago

361 upvotes – 108 comments

How I live on $7,000 per year

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-live-on-7000-per-year.html

15 years ago

341 upvotes – 214 comments

Google Killing Off Buzz and Code Search

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html

15 years ago

318 upvotes – 144 comments

It takes three years to build a business

http://jacquesmattheij.com/It+takes+three+years+to+build+a+business

15 years ago

291 upvotes – 72 comments

TopCoder: Algorithm Tutorials

http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials&d2=alg_index

15 years ago

258 upvotes – 26 comments

Dennis Ritchie: The Shoulders Steve Jobs Stood On

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/10/thedennisritchieeffect/

15 years ago

225 upvotes – 43 comments

Throwable 360 degree Panoramic Ball Camera

http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera

15 years ago

204 upvotes – 49 comments

BioCurious, a hackerspace for bio now open to public

http://biocurious.posterous.com/biocurious-meets-world-the-next-big-thing-to

15 years ago

196 upvotes – 57 comments

Metroid Source Code Expanded

http://www.romhacking.net/documents/459/

15 years ago

182 upvotes – 59 comments

How to Draw a Circle

https://banu.com/blog/7/drawing-circles/

15 years ago

180 upvotes – 50 comments

How Siri Works

http://www.jeffwofford.com/?p=817

15 years ago

152 upvotes – 72 comments

Rob Pike on the legacy of Dennis Ritchie, C & Unix

https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/33mmANQZDtY

15 years ago

148 upvotes – 0 comments

Show HN: Create a beautiful timeline with TimeKiwi

http://timekiwi.com

15 years ago

145 upvotes – 48 comments

What is your favourite C programming trick?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599365/what-is-your-favorite-c-programming-trick

15 years ago

137 upvotes – 144 comments

The Declining Hotness of Flight Attendants

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/the-declining-hotness-of-flight-attendants/246610/

15 years ago

133 upvotes – 44 comments

How to Make Easy & Flexible Star Ratings

http://nerds.airbnb.com/quick-tip-making-star-ratings-with-one-image

15 years ago

129 upvotes – 34 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Joins The Start Fund To Seed YC Companies

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/14/andreessen-horowitz-start-fund-yc/

15 years ago

123 upvotes – 49 comments

The tribesman who Facebook friended me

http://life.salon.com/2011/10/13/the_tribesman_who_facebook_friended_me/singleton/

15 years ago

119 upvotes – 11 comments

Require.js + Backbone.js = Robust Modular Application Development

http://backbonetutorials.com/organizing-backbone-using-modules/?a

15 years ago

107 upvotes – 9 comments

Free JSON API to instantly check the spam score of your email messages

http://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/

15 years ago

104 upvotes – 39 comments

Dennis Ritchie, Trailblazer in Digital Era, Dies at 70

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/technology/dennis-ritchie-programming-trailblazer-dies-at-70.html?_r=1&hp

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 8 comments

Git 1.7.7 changes affecting the everyday developer

http://johnkary.net/git-1-7-7-changes-affecting-the-everyday-developer/

15 years ago

103 upvotes – 45 comments

Money.js is a tiny (1kb) JavaScript currency conversion library for web & nodeJS

http://josscrowcroft.github.com/money.js/

15 years ago

96 upvotes – 34 comments

Weird World War II Security Puzzle

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/08/security-conundrum-in-between-silk-and.html

15 years ago

93 upvotes – 45 comments

Design That Solves Problems for the World’s Poor

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/science/29cheap.html

15 years ago

91 upvotes – 24 comments

Why I’m scared of the post-PC era.

http://sahillavingia.com/blog/why-im-scared-of-the-post-pc-era/

15 years ago

90 upvotes – 111 comments

An open letter to Peter Thiel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/an-open-letter-to-peter-thiel/2011/09/14/gIQAUexrjL_story.html

15 years ago

81 upvotes – 84 comments

Science Code Manifesto

http://sciencecodemanifesto.org/

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 20 comments

Columbus blamed for Little Ice Age

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335168/title/Columbus_blamed_for_Little_Ice_Age

15 years ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

Video: Hacker creates Super Mario game in a cardboard box

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-09/12/analogue-mario-in-a-box

15 years ago

76 upvotes – 7 comments

The MIT Hacker Ethic

http://hangger.com/posts/the-mit-hacker-ethic

15 years ago

70 upvotes – 7 comments

Time Zone Data Returns

http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/time-zone-database-rebooted.html

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 2 comments

Is this the best paper abstract ever? (on light speed neutrinos)

http://www.theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/is-this-the-best-paper-abstract-ever/

15 years ago

68 upvotes – 11 comments

Backify Offers 512 GB Free Online Backup Storage

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/backify-cloud-storage-music-streaming-video-streaming-briefcase,13695.html

15 years ago

67 upvotes – 61 comments

Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3111479

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 171 comments

Microsoft's acquisition of Skype is a done deal

http://blogs.skype.com/en/2011/10/acquisitionclose.html

15 years ago

66 upvotes – 43 comments

Redis 2.4.0 final was just released

https://raw.github.com/antirez/redis/2.4/00-RELEASENOTES

15 years ago

59 upvotes – 27 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Joins SV Angel, Yuri Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund

http://allthingsd.com/20111014/the-three-ventureers-andreessen-horowitz-joining-conway-and-milner-in-y-combinator-start-fund

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 3 comments

As more hackers start to die, when do we finally do something about it?

https://plus.google.com/104271274646422270766/posts/WoFGnsPBmwN

15 years ago

58 upvotes – 121 comments

Steve Wozniak is first in line for iPhone 4S

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/13/tech/mobile/woz-iphone-4s/index.html

15 years ago

57 upvotes – 19 comments

18TB hard drives made possible using table salt

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/18tb-hard-drives-made-possible-using-table-salt-20111014/

15 years ago

56 upvotes – 19 comments

Android on the HP Touchpad (Alpha Release)

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/33227-alpha-cyanogenmod-7-for-the-hp-touchpad-v710-alpha-13-oct-2011/

15 years ago

50 upvotes – 20 comments

Rumor: Google spending $150M to launch 25+ professional YouTube channels

http://www.deadline.com/2011/10/youtube-wrapping-up-groundbreaking-deals-to-launch-channels-with-professionally-produced-video/

15 years ago

49 upvotes – 27 comments

WebGL Dungeon

http://www.ambiera.at/coppercube/demos/version3/dynamiclight/embedwebgl.html

15 years ago

48 upvotes – 17 comments
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